Husker Du
14 April 1982
Minneapolis, MN; US
Duffy's
audience recording; two sets
[total running time: 01:07:323]

cassette side A (47:48)
001 start (0:57)
002 In A Free Land (2:46)
003 Target (1:44)
004 What Do I Want? (1:18)
005 M.I.C. (1:11)
006 Old Milwaukee (1:41)
007 Wheels (2:26)
008 From The Gut (1:57)
009 Diane (4:49)
[sounds like there may have been a tape flip here]
010 First Of The Last Calls (4:38)
011 Sunshine Superman (1:41)
012 Gravity (2:44)
013 Data Control (6:13)
[tape break here]
second set:
014 All Tensed Up (1:59)
015 Don't Try To Call (1:23)
016 I'm Not Interested (1:25)
017 Guns At My School (0:51)
018 Push The Button (1:43)
019 Gilligan's Island (1:07)
020 MTC_patched (1:26) [patch from tape flip (overlap) applied  at 01:16.051]
[tape flip]
020-1 MTC (1:26)
020-2 MTC_tape flip (0:11)
021 Don't Have A Life (1:44)
022 Obnoxious (1:17)
023 Signals From Above (1:45)
024 Bricklayer (0:40)
025 Tired Of Doing Things (0:54)
026 You're Naive (0:45)
027 Strange Week (0:54)
028 Big Sky (1:02)
029 Ultracore (0:33) [sounds like the beginning is cut]
030 Let's Go Die (1:42)
031 Statues (5:55)
encore:
032 Drug Party (6:08) [w/John Clegg, saxophone]

support for Bad Brains

I didn't record this show, but it's not unlikely I may have been there. Duffy's has been defunct for many years, after making a brief transition as a club called "Norma Jean's", and then I believe it burned down, if memory serves. I saw many shows there, and played there in bands of my own - once even improvising a quick "hardcore" jam for a bunch of wallfower punk wannabes who kept shouting out for "Husker Du". I saw Huskers there many times, but I learned pretty quickly to avoid the so-called "dance floor", as the kids were really into their slam-dance antics. Once at a Husker Du/TSOL show at Duffy's, I was knocked to the ground and had my right hand mangled pretty good, as well as having my glasses destroyed, right in front of the stage.  Bob in particular was very observant about that kind of thing, and would have no qualms about calling people on their ignorance, if he saw that people were getting hurt.

Anyway, I can't tell you anything about this show that you won't be able to hear for yourselves. Apparently, it's been around a while, although this is the first time I've heard it, and it pretty much shreds. This is my favorite era of the band, so the recent slew of '82-'83 shows has been much appreciated. Thanks to DIME-er huskerdu1972 for sending me a bunch of his tapes to digitize and share here with you all.

I guess since this isn't my recording, I can't insist on my usual policy of asking that no one posts any of their so-called "artwork" on this, but I can hope that people would realize that stuff really isn't neccesary, and it tends to feed the bootleggers more than the fanboy inside. I can say that I'm less likely to make sharing a very big priority if things I post get that kind of stuff attached to them, though.

About track 020 - MTC:
There was a bit of post-song noise that kicked off side B of the cassette I received. It ran about 11 seconds, before track 021 - "Don't Have A Life", so I wanted to keep those bits separated, but I also didn't want to make an 11-second track of interim jamming.  Then I realized that some of the tail end of MTC was actually repeated on side B, and overlapped with some of the interim noise, so I made a patch that matches up with the bass line, and adjusted the volume, which was originally slightly louder on side B of the tape.
If you want the patched-together version of 020 ("MTC"), grab the track titled "020 MTC_patched", which I put in the running sequence for this set, because I think it works.  If you want the track as it came on the cassette, grab the tracks titled "020-1 MTC" and "020-2 MTC_tape flip".

3rd-gen cassette > Azimuth-optimized analog/digital transfer to hard drive > split into tracks with CDWav editor.
SoundForge processes applied: DC offset removed; channel levels balanced (attached text file).
Traders Little Helper processes: SBE check (OK); .flac conversion (level 8)